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MS is a chronic degenerative disease of the nervous system.

MS is more commom among whites than among blacks.

An individuals symptoms will vary, depending on the areas of the brain or spinal cord affected.

MS is rare in Africa and Asia.

MS has a wide variety of symptoms, such as brief loss of vision in one eye, double vision, or a bizarre jerky movement of one or both eyes known as nystagmus. Sometimes there is diffulculty with speech. Tremors, numbness, or a feeling of pins-and-needles are other symptoms that may occur in one or more limbs. In addition, one arm or leg may be weak or hard to use, the gait may be unsteady, orthere may even be a loss of control of a limb.

MS is not an inherited disease.

MS is characterized by the development of multiple lesions in the brain and spinal cord and the gradual destruction of myelin, a fatty substance that sheathes the nerve fibers.

MS is usually diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40.

MS sometimes causes mental changes and convulsions.

Some patients deteriorate rapidly but the majority live 20 or 30 years or longer before succumbing to the disea